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Police investigating Molotov cocktail attacks as possible hate crimes

January 3, 2012

NEW YORK -- Police are investigating a fifth attack on a Long Island home hit by a Molotov cocktail Sunday night to see if it is linked to the four similar attacks in Queens, according to the Daily News. The...

Haight-Ashbury three-alarm fire injures 1

Mahsa Dinyari

January 3, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- The cause of a three-alarm fire on Masonic Ave. in San Francisco is still unknown as police continue to investigate. NBC Bay Area reports that police are treating the fire as a crime scene u...

Prosecutor: Argument over money led to fatal Chelsea fire

John M. Guilfoil

January 7, 2011

A Chelsea woman was held without bail after her arraignment on murder and arson charges in the wake of the Christmas Eve house fire that killed a 20-year-old living in another apartment in the house. Melissa...

Chelsea Christmas Eve fire ruled arson, murder

John M. Guilfoil

January 7, 2011

State Police attached to Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley's office and Chelsea Police detectives yesterday arrested a Chelsea woman in connection with the fatal Christmas Eve fire in Chelsea. ...

Taunton City Hall fire ruled Arson

John M. Guilfoil

January 6, 2011

Fire investigators announced Thursday that the August 17, 2010 fire that damaged Taunton CIty Hall was arson. “This is an ongoing criminal investigation by State Police assigned to the Office of the State Fi...

Wyoming hotel fire ruled arson

John M. Guilfoil

September 23, 2010

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives Denver Field Division Special Agent in Charge Marvin Richardson, together with Mayor Rick Kaysen, Cheyenne, Wyo. Fire Chief Jim Martin and Police Chief Bri...

Arrest made in Northampton arson spree

John M. Guilfoil

January 5, 2010

Police have made an arrest in at least one of the fires set during a December 27 arson spree that left an elderly man and his son dead. According to the Associated Press, Massachusetts Northwest District Att...

Science, fire come together at ATF lab

John M. Guilfoil

January 2, 2010

How do you investigate arson? By burning something, of course.

$10k in rewards for ATF-probed arsons in Jamaica Plain

John M. Guilfoil

April 2, 2009

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Boston Field Division, announced Wednesday that they are offering $5,000 added to the existing $5,000 reward set up by an insurance organization fo...

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